The river height data is real-time operational data from automated telemetry systems and has not been quality controlled.The data is provided for flood warning purposes and most data will not be available during non flood periods.Most river height data is provided to the Bureau of Meteorology by other agencies. Separate approval may be required to use the data for other purposes.Additional river height data is available from the NSW Office of Water and from the NSW Department of Service Technology and Administration (Manly Hydraulics Laboratory).

Resource SummaryTitle: River height observation sitesStatus: completedStart Time:2017-10-20End Time:2021-02-01Geographical Extent (deg):West:112East:160South:-44North:-9Resource DetailsAbstractRiver observation sites are locations at which the Bureau provides river height data. This data forms the latest river heights table at the end of the Bureau's Flood Warning Product.Supplementary Information:See the following, for more information:[ www.bom.gov.au/water/floods/ ], [ www.bom.gov.au/australia/flood/ ],[ www.bom.gov.au/water/floods/floodWarningServices.shtml ].BOM Product ID(s) : IDM00019PurposeTo show the location of river height observation sites used in Flood Warning ProductsTopic Category: inland WatersKeywords: (Type: theme; Thesaurus: GCMD Science keywords)EARTH SCIENCE | Terrestrial Hydrosphere | Surface Water | River/Streams | Monitoring sitesEARTH SCIENCE | Terrestrial Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Floods | Monitoring sitesEARTH SCIENCE | Terrestrial Hydrosphere | Surface Water | Water Depth | Monitoring sitesKeywords: (Type: theme; Thesaurus: ANZLIC search words)HAZARDS-FloodWATER-HydrologyWATER-RiversWATER-SurfaceKeywords: (Type: place; Thesaurus: Australian Bureau of Meteorology product categories)Observations sitesCitation DetailsTitle: River height observation sitesResource Date: 2021-02-01T12:00:00 (revision)Identifier:Code: www.bom.gov.au/metadata/19115/ANZCW0503900564Identifier Authority Title: Australian Bureau of Meteorology Product ANZLIC IdentifiersIdentifier Authority Date: 2009-04-12Party To Be Cited:Organisation: Australian Bureau of MeteorologyRole:originatorPoint Of Contact For ResourceCustodian: Manager, Geospatial Data Unit, Australian Bureau of MeteorologyEmail: mgdu@bom.gov.auWeb: www.bom.gov.auOwner: Australian Bureau of MeteorologyPoint Of Contact: Australian Bureau of MeteorologyData ExtentGeographical Extent (deg):West Bound Longitude:112East Bound Longitude:160South Bound Latitude:-44North Bound Latitude:-9Temporal Extent:Start Time:2017-10-20End Time:2021-02-01Resource Distribution InformationDistribution Format:Name: ESRI Shapefile, Version:1.0Name: ESRI Feature LayerTransfer Options:Downloadable Data : Files starting with IDM00019.* (ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/home/adfd/spatial/)Download and API: https://abom.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=0cb4dad26dc946d8a8c30613adf4ee07 Point of truth URL of this metadata record (www.bom.gov.au/metadata/19115/ANZCW0503900564), Function: informationResource QualityScope:Level:datasetLineage:Statement:Sites extracted from SitesDB database and converted into a shapefile.In December 2017, two new sites were added at Mirrool Creek at East Mirrool Regulator and Mirrool Creek at Barellan Road.In October 2018, three new sites were added in NSW: Hawkesbury River at North Richmond Bridge, Hawkesbury River at Windsor Bridge and Macquarie River at Warren Weir. There was a small name change for two sites. Tweed River at Chinderah (Barney's Point) (AHD) to Tweed River at Chinderah (Barney's Point) and Tweed River at Murwillumbah (AHD) to Tweed River at North Murwillumbah.In February 2019, two sites in NSW had corrections to their names, Gross River at Burralow" to Grose River at Burralow and Macdonald River at Street Albans to Macdonald River at St Albans. In Qld, Cooper Ck at Windorah TM was changed to Cooper Ck at Windorah (Long Crossing) TM.In April 2020, the attributes of the river observation sites in Queensland were changed to reflect the splitting of the Gulf Rivers Catchment into 1) Nicholson and Leichhardt Rivers 2) Flinders and Cloncurry Rivers 3) Norman and Gilbert Rivers.In June 2020, an spelling error was corrected for Jamieson River at Gerrans Bridge in Victoria.In October 2020, ten new sites were added in Victoria: Mt Emu Creek at Guthries Bridge, Burrumbeet Creek at Lake Burrumbeet, Richardson River at Banyena, Richardson River at Carrs Plains, Broken Creek at School Road, Broken Creek at Larissa Road, Muckatah Creek at Katamatite East, Muckatah Creek at Nahring Hall Rd, Nine Mile Creek at Sellicks Road, Broken Creek at Numurkah. Two new sites were added in Qld: Kroombit Creek at Biloela and Callide Creek at Jambin. Also, the attributes of the river observation sites in NSW were changed to reflect the splitting of the "Richmond and Wilsons Rivers" existing catchment into 1) "Richmond River" 2) "Wilsons River" catchments.In January 2021, two new observation sites were added in Queensland: Logan R at Parklands Alert and Barcoo R at Retreat TM.Resource Update FrequencyMaintenance And Update Frequency: asNeededMaintenance Note:Reference SystemCode: GDA 94Code Space: Geocentric Datum of AustraliaIdentifier Authority:Identifier Authority Title: EPSG Geodetic Parameter DatasetIdentifier Authority Date: 2008-01-11 (creation)Spatial RepresentationGeometric Objects:Object Type: pointMetadata InformationMetadata Identifier:ANZCW0503900564Language: engCharacter Set:utf8Hierarchy Level:datasetMetadata Contact:Point Of Contact: Manager, Geospatial Data Unit, Australian Bureau of MeteorologyEmail: metadata@bom.gov.auDate Metadata Revised:2021-01-28T04:43:28Metadata Standard: ISO19115:2003/ISO19139:2007; Geographic information – Metadata (ver. 1.0)Metadata ConstraintsMetadata Legal Constraints:Use Constraints: copyright; otherRestrictionsOther Constraints:Metadata constraints: The authoritative (Point of truth) full version of this metadata record is under copyright, and available from [ www.bom.gov.au/metadata/19115/ANZCW0503900564 ]. 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The NSW Department of Commerce's Manly Hydraulics Laboratory (MHL) was\r commissioned by Gosford City Council (GCC) to carry out a water level scoping study for the Gosford region.\r \r An initial meeting with GCC representatives highlighted the need for installing a network of water level recording stations within the Gosford City region for the purposes of obtaining water level data for use in flood warning and the calibration of flood-related models used in developing flood studies. The outcomes of this meeting included a preliminary list of potential water level recorder sites, as detailed in Appendix A.\r \r MHL then proceeded to review the available information on the existing water level recording network in the Gosford City region, including the automatic water level recorder (AWLR) stations MHL maintains for the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) as well as the hlstoric maximum height indicator (MHI) sites.\r \r GCC supplied MHL with the existing flood studies on major creeks and catchments in the Gosford City region (those utilised in this study are presented in Appendix B). In general the flood heights used in these studies were based on surveys in which residents recounted historical flood heights, as well as MHI records. Most flood studies cautioned of possible errors in the calibration of these models due to insufficient water level information, however there were very few studies which made recommendations for future water level recorder station locations.\r \r As part of the review process several consultations were undertaken with relevant parties including flood study consultants, the State Emergency Service (SES) and the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).\r \r The flood study consultant contacted was Mr Richard Dewar of Webb, McKeown and\r Associates Pty Ltd for comments on the preliminary proposed network of water level\r recorders. His primary comments included a preference for fewer AWLRs in favour of more MHI sites which may provide a more detailed flood gradient of peak water level along a creek for an event. In general, Mr Dewar confirmed the proposed AWLR sites and provided some further discussion.\r \r The Gosford SES has an intimate knowledge of the problem flooding areas within the GCC region and understands the flooding situation well. The SES has a particular understanding of key flooding areas which would be benefited by a flood warning system. Mr Bernard Kates (on behalf of Gosford region SES) responded to MHL's request with a list of problem flooding sites including flash flooding areas and road cut-off points.\r \r Mr Gordon Mackay of the BoM was approached for his comments on the proposed new network. Mr Mackay outlined the BoM preference for real time data systems to be implemented with any new gauges and the upgrade of selected rainfall sites to push out real time data.\r \r With the information obtained from the review and consultation process it was clear that the most effective approach is to have AWLR installations in key locations and a much wider extensive MHI network.\r \r MHL deployed two experienced field officers, David Griffin and Brett Glover, to visit the preliminary sites nominated in the scoping study. The site visit provided valuable information on the suitability of sites to AWLR or MHI installations as well as the siting of instruments at each site.\r \r The preliminary findings of the review, including proposed AWLR and MHI sites, were\r presented to GCC representatives and discussed at the final meeting with Council. This meeting finalised the site selection such that the final proposed network was to include more MHI sites, fewer AWLR sites and the re-instatement of all historic MHI sites.\r \r The final recommendations include a staged implementation of 18 new AWLR sites (Stage 1 - 5 sites, Stage 2 - 13 sites) and 100 new MHI sites, as well as the reinstatement of 36 historic MHI sites. The cost of installation and maintenance of the five Stage 1 AWLR sites would be $77,500 in the first year and $12,500 per year thereafter. The cost of installation and maintenance of the thirteen Stage 2 AWLR sites would be $201,500 in the first year and $32,500 per year thereafter. The cost of installation and maintenance of 36 reinstated historic MHI sites would be $10,800 in the first year and $10,800 per year thereafter. The cost of installation and maintenance of 100 new MHI sites would be $30,000 in the first year and\r $30,000 per year thereafter.\r \r The cost to upgrade the rainfall data loggers to push out real time data as recommended by the BoM would be $7,500 for the five rainfall sites identified as priorities by the BoM.

Abstract This dataset was supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and is presented here as originally supplied. The metadata was not provided by the data supplier and has …Show full descriptionAbstract This dataset was supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and is presented here as originally supplied. The metadata was not provided by the data supplier and has been written by the programme based on known details at the time of writing. A request was made for time series water level data for the following storages located in the CLM PAE: Toonumbar Dam Emigrant Creek Dam Rocky Creek Dam Rocky Creek and Emigrant Dam water levels were created from data supplied to the Bureau of Meteorology under the Water Regulations Act 2008. Toonumbar Dam water levels were extracted from the following website http://realtimedata.water.nsw.gov.au/water.stm Purpose To be used as data for surface water modelling in Richmond River within the CLM PAE Dataset History A request was made for time series information for 3 water storages in the CLM PAE: Toonumbar Dam Emigrant Creek Dam Rocky Creek Dam The data is provided in the following format: Toonumbar Dam: 5 CSV files downloaded from http://realtimedata.water.nsw.gov.au/water.stm Rocky Creek and Emigrant Creek This data is provided under the Water Regulations Act to the Bureau on a regular basis from Rous Water (Data Provider w00199) bureau of met rcd level data.xlsx Example of Variables and format from Toonumbar Dam files: Sites: 203042 - IRONPOT CREEK AT TOONUMBAR DAM-STORAGE GAUGE Lat:-28.6185 Long:152.7936 Elev:155.906 Variables: 10 - Rainfall (Millimetres) 130 - Reservoir Water Level (Metres) 136 - Reservoir Volume in Storage (Megalitres) 422 - Net Reservoir Inflow 24hours (Megalitres) 459 - Storage Releases 24 hour Total (Megalitres) 700 - Evaporation from a U.S. Class A Pan (Millimetres) Qualities: 3 - RATINGS/TS - No data in the period have been adjusted from sensing system measurement in any way - see code definitions 4 - TS - Data adjusted during processing - see code definitions 33 - Pre 21 Aug 2004 - TS - Good record processed +/- 10mm, within 30minutes 40 - Pre 21 Aug 2004 - TS - Fair measured data 130 - Not quality coded - subject to change 255 - No data 255 - No data exists 255 - Data Unavailable Example of Rocky Creek and Emigrant Creek file variables Rocky Creek Dam Storage Level Date Capacity Rocky Creek Dam Capacity Rainfall at RCD Capacity Emigrant Creek Dam ML % mm % (Full=14000) Full 820ML Reading Taken at 8.30am Dataset Citation Bureau of Meteorology (2015) Water levels Selected Dam Storages Time Series NSW BOM CLM 20150327. Bioregional Assessment Derived Dataset. Viewed 07 April 2016, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/327a70dd-6498-4c8f-9308-bc4a366b66ad.

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A series of maps that show water monitoring stations (gauging stations) across New South Wales. This map series, formerly known as the Pinneena maps, was created as part of a major project in 2011. ### Each map includes stations which fall in the following categories: ### * Current with significant data: Gauging stations that were active and have significant data or had been established as of March 2011. ### * Current without significant data: Gauging stations that were active but didn't have significant data as of March 2011. ### * Discontinued or moved: Gauging station that had been closed or moved to another organisation to maintain as of March 2011. ### A water monitoring station (gauging station) is a location on a stream, canal, lake or reservoir from which an observer or tool takes systematic readings of the gauge height or discharge. Hydrologists use these continuous records to make predictions and decisions concerning water level, flood activity and control, navigation, and the like. Note: The maps are best displayed at A3 paper size.

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These water monitoring station maps were created as part of a project completed in March 2011, and have not been updated to include more recent data or information. The information contained in these maps should be used as a reference only, as the actual location or category of some gauging stations may have changed. ### The maps use the following datasets (all licensed under ‘Creative Commons Attribution’) supplied by other agencies: ### * Spatial Services (New South Wales Department of Customer Service) Hydro Line (Rivers/Creeks) spatial data is a dataset of mapped watercourses and waterbodies in NSW. They can be referenced as ‘ NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework – Water – NSW Hydro Line’. © Spatial Services [2011] ### * Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Australia’s River Basins (Catchment boundaries) spatial data uses the Australia’s River Basin 1997 dataset. Citation: 1997. Australia's River Basins 1997. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/42343 For more information http://www.bom.gov.au/water/about/riverBasinAuxNav.shtml ### * WaterNSW Real time data of monitoring stations can be accessed through WaterNSW Real-time data website: https://www.waternsw.com.au/waterinsights/real-time-data Reference: The material is subject to copyright under the Copyright Act 1968, and it is owned by the State of New South Wales through WaterNSW. WaterNSW encourages the availability, dissemination and exchange of public information. You may copy, distribute, display, download and otherwise freely deal with the information for any purpose, on the condition that you include the copyright.

Note: In addition to the attached individual catchment maps PDFs (which can be printed off one at a time), there is also a MERGED version consolidating all of the individual PDFs into a single ATLAS of Maps PDF. This particular pdf (which is designed to be printed A3 back-to-back) is attached and titled: zz_PINNEENA_A3_MARCH2011_FINAL.pdf

Abstract This dataset was supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and is presented here as originally supplied. The metadata was not provided by the data supplier and has been compiled by the programme based on known details at the time of acquisition. This data has been extracted from BOM internal systems and is daily storage level (height in metres) and volume (ML) for the following Storages: Storage Data Provider Glennies Creek Dam State Water Mardi Dam Gosford City / Wyong (w00257) Note: up to 2009 listed with Hunter Water w00126 Grahamstown Dam Hunter Water (w00126) ## Purpose Monitoring data supplied to the Bureau of Meteorology under the Water Act 2008 ## Dataset History The metadata was not provided by the data supplier and has been compiled by the programme based on known details at the time of acquisition. No history statement was provided. ## Dataset Citation Bureau of Meteorology (2015) Selected NSW Storages Daily Level and Volume BOM HUN 20150807. Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 09 May 2017, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/3d738079-1954-42a6-80b7-14536bb6d01e.

A series of maps that show water monitoring stations (gauging stations) across New South Wales. This map series, formerly known as the Pinneena maps, was created as part of a major project in 2011. \r

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Each map includes stations which fall in the following categories:\r

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• Current with significant data: Gauging stations that were active and have significant data or had been established as of March 2011.\r ###\r
• Current without significant data: Gauging stations that were active but didn't have significant data as of March 2011.\r ###\r
• Discontinued or moved:\r Gauging station that had been closed or moved to another organisation to maintain as of March 2011.\r ###\r A water monitoring station (gauging station) is a location on a stream, canal, lake or reservoir from which an observer or tool takes systematic readings of the gauge height or discharge. Hydrologists use these continuous records to make predictions and decisions concerning water level, flood activity and control, navigation, and the like. Note: The maps are best displayed at A3 paper size.\r ###_Data disclaimer_ \r These water monitoring station maps were created as part of a project completed in March 2011, and have not been updated to include more recent data or information. The information contained in these maps should be used as a reference only, as the actual location or category of some gauging stations may have changed.\r ###\r The maps use the following datasets (all licensed under ‘Creative Commons Attribution’) supplied by other agencies:\r ###\r
• Spatial Services (New South Wales Department of Customer Service)\r Hydro Line (Rivers/Creeks) spatial data is a dataset of mapped watercourses and waterbodies in NSW. They can be referenced as ‘ NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework – Water – NSW Hydro Line’. © Spatial Services [2011]\r ###\r
• Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology\r Australia’s River Basins (Catchment boundaries) spatial data uses the Australia’s River Basin 1997 dataset.\r Citation: 1997. Australia's River Basins 1997. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/42343\r For more information http://www.bom.gov.au/water/about/riverBasinAuxNav.shtml\r ###\r
• WaterNSW\r Real time data of monitoring stations can be accessed through WaterNSW Real-time data website: https://www.waternsw.com.au/waterinsights/real-time-data\r Reference: The material is subject to copyright under the Copyright Act 1968, and it is owned by the State of New South Wales through WaterNSW.\r WaterNSW encourages the availability, dissemination and exchange of public information. You may copy, distribute, display, download and otherwise freely deal with the information for any purpose, on the condition that you include the copyright.\r \r Note: In addition to the attached individual catchment maps PDFs (which can be printed off one at a time), there is also a MERGED version consolidating all of the individual PDFs into a single ATLAS of Maps PDF. This particular pdf (which is designed to be printed A3 back-to-back) is attached and titled: zz_PINNEENA_A3_MARCH2011_FINAL.pdf

This assessment and related data examines water resources in the South East Coast (NSW) region in 2009–10 and over recent decades. Seasonal variability and trends in modelled water flows, stores and levels are considered at the regional level and also in more detail at sites for selected rivers. Information on water use is provided for selected urban centres and irrigation areas.

It begins with an overview of key data and information on water flows, stores and use in the region in recent times followed by a description of the region. Surface water quality, which is important in any water resources assessment, is not addressed. At the time of writing, suitable quality controlled and assured surface water quality data from the Australian Water Resources Information System (Bureau of Meteorology 2011a) were not available. Groundwater and water use are only partially addressed for the same reason.

In future reports, these aspects will be dealt with more thoroughly as suitable data become operationally available.

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The assessment presents the 2009–10 annual landscape water flows and the change in accessible surface water storage in the South East Coast (NSW) region. Despite the relatively low rainfall amount, the landscape water yield1 total was still close to the long-term average, mainly due to the internal regional spatial distribution of both rainfall and landscape water yield. The surface water storage change did reflect the lower rainfall amounts as most water storages are located in the lower rainfall areas. http://www.bom.gov.au/water/awra/2010/images/small/secnsw.gif" alt="" />

Hourly and 15-minute ocean water levels from New South Wales (NSW) coast were provided by Manly Hydraulics Laboratory (MHL) and Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) data for this region. The organisations collect coastal water levels from different ocean tide gauge types that include: onshore bay, onshore river entrance, and offshore open ocean. However, the onshore river entrance gauges are susceptible to large peaks due to rainfall and the offshore open ocean gauges lack a persistent datum. Therefore, the datasets were adjusted to the vertical Australian Height Datum (AHD) and had the rainfall-related peaks removed from the records. Tidal anomalies, which represent the difference between observed water levels and the predicted tide were obtained through the Unified Tidal Analysis and Prediction model (Utide). The aim of the study is to compile a high-quality set of residuals consistent in datum. This data collection accompanies a data descriptor paper in the 'Data' Journal, it has been assigned a DOI and will be maintained in perpetuity by the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN).

River ecosystem metabolism and ancillary data accompanying Giling et al. (in press). This data is used to perform the Bayesian spatio-temporal model (Santos-Fernandez et al. 2022).The dataset includes:'lsn.ssn'. ssn object containing spatial information on the stream network (Ver Hoef et al. 2006, Peterson and Ver Hoef 2014).'sites_df_with_obs.csv' and associated metadata. The metabolism estimates were modelled from diel dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and PAR data collected as part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder’s flow monitoring programs. Raw dissolved oxygen data are publically available (CEWH 2023). Discharge, water level, and water temperature data were sourced from the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (http://www.bom.gov.au/waterdata/, accessed 29/07/2021). Gridded daily solar exposure data were sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology. Note that the ecosystem metabolism rates presented here are not identical to the rates published from the broader Flow-MER program (available at https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/flow-mer-metabolism-base-model) due to the setting of site-specific constraints on reaeration rates in the current work, as described in the Supplementary Information of Giling et al. (under review).'preds_spatial_df.csv' and associated metadata. Data containing prediction coordinates and ancillary data for predicting ecosystem metabolism rates at new sites.ReferencesCEWH. 2023. Metabolism oxygen logger data. Flow-MER Program. Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Sourced from https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/flow-mer-oxygen-logger. Last accessed 23/08/2023).Peterson EE, Ver Hoef JM. 2014. Stars: An ArcGIS toolset used to calculate the spatial information needed to fit spatial statistical models to stream network data. Journal of Statistical Software 56:1–17.Santos-Fernandez E, Ver Hoef JM, Peterson EE, McGree J, Isaak DJ, Mengersen K. 2022. Bayesian spatio-temporal models for stream networks. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 170:107446.Ver Hoef JM, Peterson E, Theobald D, Hoef JMV, Peterson E, Theobald D. 2006. Spatial statistical models that use flow and stream distance. Environ Ecol Stat 13:449–64.